Getting away from bottles?

RochaMartel

When did you all make the move away from bottles and only use sippy cups? And how did you do this transistion?

Thanks!

Dreamsicle23

I went cold turkey to straw cups around 9 months...basically as soon as I realized he could use one. The younger they are the less attached they are.

LeanneCM

Why Hello Revere Mommy! I'm in Methuen

We cut down to 3 a day at 12 months, then cold turkey at 14 months. I didn't want to send him to the toddler room with a bottle.

The binky, however, is another story. He still has it for nap and nighttime.

MrsMommyQ

We started dropping bottles at 12 months and were completely on sippys by 13 months.

We started by getting rid of the morning bottle and offering a sippy of milk, and it was no problem. We hung on to the bedtime bottle longer, more bc of us than LO needing it or wanting it. We liked the cuddle time and holding her with her bottle. But then we just changed it to sitting on our lap with her sippy of milk and she did great with it.

had720

We are in the process now and it has been interesting. Sophee will drink water or orange out of sippy cup, but when I put milk in there she will take some sips then pushes it away. I try to give her milk in the cup every now and then, each time she drinks more and more from it. Most of the time she drinks it from the bottle. Some moms I know take bottle away cold turkey and only give them cup, I am not there yet. I will just keep doing what I am doing and know when she is ready, she will drink from it. Eventually we will stop the bottles, so it may be easier then.

RochaMartel

Hi Methuen Mom!

I am trying to break away from bottles for the same reason you had, but getting my husband to consider that we should make this move it a bit hard - he thinks our son at almost 14 months is OK just with the bottles.

I am trying to start with atleast milk in a sippy cup for at a minimum of one snack time per day right now.

 We didn't do the binky here and I am not sure if I could handle having to drop the bottle and the binky! Good luck!

RochaMartel

Dreamsicle23:

I went cold turkey to straw cups around 9 months...basically as soon as I realized he could use one. The younger they are the less attached they are.

 This is what I am concerned about!

Kara5109

I took them away cold turkey at 10 months.

Wufroggy79

Started the transition at nine months by switching one bottle for one sippy gradually each month before we switched completely over to sippies one week before she turned one.  Our pedi didn't want her on a bottle at all no later than 13 months.

KissyFishyLips

Dreamsicle23:

I went cold turkey to straw cups around 9 months...basically as soon as I realized he could use one. The younger they are the less attached they are.

This was us, too.  At 9 months, all of her daytime feedings were from a sippy, but I was still giving her the bedtime bottle.  About 2 weeks later, I realized that wasn't necessary, so I switched that one out, too.  No drawn-out transition, we just did it and it stuck. Good luck! 

boggs507

We started just after he was 11 mo.  We replaced the afternoon bottle with a sippy and small snack then took away his mid morning bottle, and this week took away his early afternoon bottle - making him bottle free.

I do still nurse in the morning before work and at bedtime though. We'll start working on the paci after we get back from vacation next week.

BabyCakes3

We started offering sippy's around 9 months & he would never touch them. DD was really easy so it was frustrating. At 12 months, I moved to sippys with 1 bottle before nap & 1 before bed & none to MDO. Then around Christmas, I dropped the nap bottle. He JUST last week (17m) completely stopped drinking from the bottle at bedtime for 2 nights in a row. Not sure why but I put the bottles away! He's just recently becoming better about drinking from sippys & I think it was the WHOLE milk. DD wouldn't drink it. So this week we switched him to 2% & he drinks from a sippy like a normal kid!!!!!